Mitt Romney another RINO

Cratic3947 · 2019-01-03T23:33:07.713Z

FloridaYankee:

Cratic3947:

Dems made people think Romney is cruel to dogs and cheated on his taxes. He can’t seem to learn from that…

When what he actually did was raid the pension funds of companies via handsome dividends to himself while loading them up with insurmountable debt.

How Mitt Romney Drove Companies Bankrupt, Raided Pension Funds and Paid Himself Handsomely

See, the dems will attack any rep unmercifully. Even nice moderates. Why dim bulbs like Romney can’t seem to figure that out is beyond me…

FloridaYankee · 2019-01-04T01:07:41.605Z

Cratic3947:

FloridaYankee:

Cratic3947:

Dems made people think Romney is cruel to dogs and cheated on his taxes. He can’t seem to learn from that…

When what he actually did was raid the pension funds of companies via handsome dividends to himself while loading them up with insurmountable debt.

How Mitt Romney Drove Companies Bankrupt, Raided Pension Funds and Paid Himself Handsomely

See, the dems will attack any rep unmercifully. Even nice moderates. Why dim bulbs like Romney can’t seem to figure that out is beyond me…

Stating a fact is not an attack and I ain’t no dem.

Chris · 2019-01-04T01:33:08.887Z

Romney got about 93% of the Republican vote from the 2012 Presidential election. And I think that he supports Trump on the border wall.

Chris · 2019-01-04T01:41:10.412Z

I have asked several times for a list of all the Republicans and have it pointed out on that list which ones are the RINOs and which ones are the real and true Republicans. However, I never got that list.

pam95650 · 2019-01-04T01:45:14.953Z

I suppose dodging the draft with the help of daddy’s doctor friend accounts for something quite special. It sure beats putting your life on the line for your country, right?

pam95650 · 2019-01-04T01:47:27.993Z

An ■■■■■■■ extraordinaire.

Publius · 2019-01-04T03:25:07.469Z

Don’t forget saving the 2002 Winter Olympics…

zonulet · 2019-01-04T04:15:48.555Z

Mitt Romney, drier than a popcorn fart, still can’t believe Trump won at something he lost.

sikofit · 2019-01-04T12:00:56.839Z

Tguns:

I still think we would be better off now had Romney won in 2012.

I agree

Jamerican · 2019-01-04T12:35:17.660Z

What makes you a RINO these days?

Is it because as a republican you don’t always go with the status quo?
Is it because as a republican you are your own person and know what is right or wrong?
Or is it because you’re not a follower like most of these 45 drones in the GOP?

Camp · 2019-01-04T12:41:41.641Z

I am laughing so hard my sides hurt.

Everyone is a tool in DC including Romney albeit a very well groomed and mannered tool.

IBC · 2019-01-04T13:12:24.972Z

Meh. If Romney were the R candidate, you’d vote for him, RINO or no.

hindsight · 2019-01-04T13:26:06.801Z

IBC:

Meh. If Romney were the R candidate, you’d vote for him, RINO or no.

This man speaks the truth.

margaretms2 · 2019-01-04T13:59:56.578Z

What different/substantive policy ideas do you think Romney has that deviate from the rest of the polarized GOP?

margaretms2 · 2019-01-04T14:03:30.001Z

Jamerican:

What makes you a RINO these days?

Is it because as a republican you don’t always go with the status quo?
Is it because as a republican you are your own person and know what is right or wrong?
Or is it because you’re not a follower like most of these 45 drones in the GOP?

The thing is: Flake, Sasse, Corker, etc. It’s not like they actually did anything, other than yammer and pout. For example, if any or all had wanted to say: The President needs to change course/behavior, and we’re going to caucus with Democrats/block judges/engage in actual oversight until he does–okay, that’s bucking the party. But overwhelmingly, these cowards expressed disapproval, while voting to enable the President.

Camp · 2019-01-04T14:05:00.642Z

Immigration is the topical one and I don’t think he really minds poorly fenced borders and depressed middle class wages.

Samson_Corwell · 2019-01-04T15:49:42.756Z

margaretms2:

Sewell:

DOLOOP:

The premise of the OP appears to be that Republicans really suck at nominating actual Republicans for the Presidency.

And are not the least bit angry at themselves for it

From the time I’ve joined here, I’ve been fascinated by the way that RINO/“real conservative” get defined in often arbitrary or incoherent ways. But the definition is all-encompassing, non-negotiable, and black-and-white with regard to tribal membership.

So in 2004, when I joined, real “Republicans” and “conservatives” were defined on this forum entirely by absolute support for the war in Iraq and the Bush administration, even though the former, in particular, wasn’t conservative at all. And now, of course, they’ve distanced themselves from it by electing a guy who earned the GOP nomination, in part, by dishonestly claiming he opposed the war before it started.

What makes Trump a “real” conservative and “real” Republican, but not Romney, or Corker, or Flake, or whomever (who, by the way, vote with Trump and the GOP almost 100% of the time)? It’s bizarre. And, as with Iraq, sooner or later they’re going to have shove Trump down the memory hole and evade responsibility for him.

It’s cannibalism that is as bad as the kind we can find in leftist circles on “political correctness”.

Guvnah · 2019-01-04T17:24:39.157Z

IBC:

Meh. If Romney were the R candidate, you’d vote for him, RINO or no.

Even Jeff Flake would be better than any Dem.

IBC · 2019-01-05T00:04:45.437Z

That’s why the RINO appellation is so meaningless.

Guvnah · 2019-01-05T04:12:50.907Z

IBC:

That’s why the RINO appellation is so meaningless.

No argument from me.

In fact, RINO is the new GOP, which means that the vast majority of them are GOP, and the true conservatives are NRINOs. (New RINOs.)